The Disney movie of the moment is Frozen, and if you’ve ever watched it, no doubt, as you read the title to this post you also sung do you want to build a snowman? You’ve now got the free printable label to make your Frozen Olaf party favor bags, but what goes inside the cellophane bags? If I recall, I just snipped the ends of the marshmallows and the sticky edges then stuck together! The financial situation that my husband and I found ourselves in back then was dire to say the least. This blog has improved our finances in more ways than one and in this post, I’ll explain how starting a blog could help your finances too. Everyone has some kind of financial goal, whether it’s to get out of debt, save more, give more or just manage to survive day to day without worrying about money. Once you start blogging, you’ll develop a whole new skill set, whether you intend to or not. You can carve out a freelance writing career for yourself off the back of your blog, as I and many other bloggers have done.
To give you an example, blogging here at Disease Called Debt has landed me many different jobs writing articles about finance for other bloggers and financial organisations. I also have a craft blog which has helped me to connect with my best freelancing client – the owner of a craft shop in the USA. A few weeks ago, I published a brand new guide on Disease Called Debt called How to Start a Money Making Blog. Check out my latest income report here for more details of what I’ve earned from blogging this year so far. Everything you need to know about getting started blogging is in my free detailed blogging guide, but as a first step, you’ll need a website hosting provider where you can install WordPress to design your website and publish posts. Bluehost is a website hosting provider I highly recommend and they have very low cost hosting packages throughout the year. To benefit from these reduced prices, you can sign up to Bluehost through my discounted link here. The most rewarding way that a blog can improve your finances is by providing you with an income stream.
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I wanted my sentiment to appear in a vertical arrangement, so I cut apart the words in my sentiment design using the Knife Tool. Then I cleaned up any rough edges on my four separate words using the Point Editing Tool.
Add a pretty floral silhouette shape to your design and cut all of this out of black vinyl. Weed and transfer the vinyl to your painted canvas using the scraper tool and transfer paper. I also cut a a strip of black vinyl to use around the perimeter of my piece to finish off the edges.
Sometimes the free shape just takes a few quick snips to be exactly the design you were looking for! How are you going to use it? I spent half an hour last eve pulling things out of dining room and putting them in a spot in living room. If we don’t spend the time setting goals the right way and creating a system to help us follow through, they will remain aspirations.
A study by a clinical psychologist at Dominican University of California found that when goals are shared with a friend, they are 23% more likely to happen.
Pop all the snowman pieces into a cellophane bag and then fold it over, depending on the length of the bag. You can start a blog on any topic but still use it to help you work towards your financial goals. You can use it as a progress diary so you can post updates about how you’re getting on.
If you have any type of goals, financial or otherwise, your readers will motivate you to achieve them. A blog can be a very useful portfolio, providing evidence of your writing and social media skills at the very least.
Your blog can provide you with new career opportunities from various companies and even other bloggers who are looking for writers to help them.
For this client, I make use of my other craft related skills – she saw that I could make jewelry from various posts on my craft blog.
If you haven’t seen this yet, do take a minute to check it out, as it explains exactly how to get started blogging and the different methods you can use on a blog to make money.
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Simplify your blog reading by signing up to read my blog via RSS (get updates in a feed reader) or via email (get updates delivered daily to your inbox). It’s Friday, are you excited? I am because my birthday is in 4 sleeps, woohoo! I’ll be turning 43 and I still love birthdays!! We work hard to improve ourselves and our businesses but somehow most of us never follow through.
The real reason most of us fail at reaching our goals is because we don’t have the right support system set up. When that same friend receives weekly updates on the goal progress, it is 33% more likely to be accomplished.
Use a logbook to share your weekly updates and get some encouragement—or tough love when you need it!
Today I’m sharing a party favor idea that would be great to give out as thank yous at the end of a Frozen themed party. It’s so flexible that anyone can start a blog around their existing day job, or kids, or other life commitments. Spend some time writing or reviewing your mission statement, core message, and business values. But you once you break down running a marathon into a regular training schedule it becomes much more doable. Find an accountability partner, tell them about your goal, and create a schedule for checking in. Making favor bags filled with treats is definitely one of my favourite party thank you gifts to give to my guests! It can act as a portfolio so that you can show off your skills, even if they are unrelated to blogging. I’ve designed a label that you can print off and fold over a plastic food bag which will hold the snowman elements inside!